214 BULLIDiE. 



distant, revolving, sometimes undulating strise ; apex circularly 

 and deeplv excavated, columella sinuose, broadly 



Fig. 503. ^ " . . 



and lightly callous ; lip crenulated posteriorly ; ap- 

 erture very wide. Length, eighteen lumdrodths of 

 an inch ; breadth, fourteen hundredths of an inch 

 (^Slimpson). 



Several specimens were taken from fishes caught 

 on the " Middle Bank," in seventeen fathoms ; in 

 p. qiiadrata. thirty fathouis off Cape Ann, and in deep water off 

 y e arge . ^^^ coast of Maiuc (^Stimpsori) ; Zetlands, &c. (^Forbes 

 and Hanley) ; Greenland {Morcli). 



Philine lineolata. 



Fig. 99. 



Shell minute, ovate, ferruginous; whorls three, the last enveloping all the 

 others, and marked with numerous revolving lines; aperture dilated anteriorly. 



BuVa Uneoluta, Couthout, Best. Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. 179, pi. 3, fis:. 15 (1839) ; Am. 



Journ. 8c. Istscr. xxxvi. 389 (1 839). — Gould, Inv. 169, tig. 99, (IS41). — De Kay, 



N. Y. Moil. 16, pi. 3.1, fig. 334 (1843). 

 Philine lineolata, Stimpson, Check Lists, 4 (1860). 



Shell very small, oblong-ovate, broadest anteriorly, very thin, 



and fragile, covered with a thin, rust-colored epidermis ; whorls 



three, forming a flattened spire, the outer one somewhat 



Fig. 504. 5 o 1 ' 



inflated, and delicately marked with numerous, impressed, 

 revolving lines ; aperture extending the whole length of the 

 shell, very narrow behind, and rapidly widening forwards, 

 p. lineo- so that the lip is broadly rounded in front ; the pillar has a 

 faint oljlique fold near the middle. "Within glossy, yellow- 

 ish-white. Length, three twentieths of an inch ; breadth, three 

 fortieths of an inch. 



Several specimens of this very delicate and very singular shell 

 have been taken from the stomachs of fishes caught in Massachu- 

 setts Bay ; Cape Cod northward to Grand Manan ( Stimpsuri) ; Fish- 

 ing Banks, rare ( Willis^. 



It appears like a diminutive specimen of Bulla lig-naria, but its 

 somewhat elevated spire is one good distinctive mark. The revolv- 

 ing lines are rather distant, regularly disposed, and always conspic- 

 uous under a magnifier. 



